As a person that pitched from age 9 though college.. it all has to do on where you grip the ball, how you release it, and sometimes what angle you release it. Every pitcher even throwing the same pitch is a bit different
Yeah it depends on the pitcher just bc you use the same grip and motion doesn’t mean you’ll get the same movement either it also depends on your body type and flexibility as well
Yes... I pitched from age 7 thru high school, and a summer in Cape Cod, and as a "soft tossing crafty left hander" like I was, I experimented with different grips and putting pressure on one of my fingers to give the pitch "extra" movement.. sometimes it worked.. sometimes I'd get lit up like a christmas tree. I had both a "2 seamer" AND a "sinker" and used 3 different grips with my changeups that moved 3 different ways when I threw them.. my problem was, I could touch 90mph.. but had NO control when I threw that hard.
MLB has a video about this that explains a bit more about the physics and the history. It also goes over banned pitches and give more information on the knuckleball
Something not mentioned is that the rotation on a specific pitch can be modified by the arm position that the pitcher releases the ball. It can range from straight over the top of the shoulder, or completely sidearm (with the arm releasing the ball from a horizontal position. Not a lot of pitchers do this, but the ones that can pull it off correctly, can really keep the hitters guessing.
A batter steps to the plate with what's called an "approach." Approach means a strategy. He has studied the pitcher and is trying to get a pitch to his liking. The approach can change from pitch to pitch. Likewise, the pitcher has studied the batter. He knows his strengths and weaknesses. This is the mental game, the battle, that makes baseball a thinker's sport.
Baseball being a "thinker's" sport is a huge misconception. Baseball is the most hostile sport to actual human intelligence; baseball players who openly demonstrate an IQ higher than 80 are usually run out of the sport early. There's a reason that baseball players have the reputation of being dumb even by jock standards.
Joe, the purpose of the raised seams on a baseball is to allow the ball to be controlled. When a thrown ball rotates the seams create an area of high pressure on one side, and low pressure on the other. The ball will move (curve) towards the area of lowest pressure. By making the ball spin with differing rotations allows the pitcher to throw various types of pitches. A knuckleball has almost no rotation at all and moves in an erratic pattern.
It is also interesting to see how to grip or prep each pitch. I'm sure a video exists for this, but for example, the difference in how a pitcher will hold a 4 seam fastball vs a sinker vs a cutter. That will also help you understand how and why the pitch moves they way it does. Also, Love the Show. Preordered and have been playing for a few days already...⚾
Hey! I just came across just channel and I loving the reaction to baseball videos!! Keep up the good work and I hope you fall more and more in love with this beautiful game. Regards from Mexico!! Btw, It was a little disappointing that video didn't show any examples of the "screwballs", specially since the best mexican baseball player of all time, Fernando Valenzuela, used to throw that pitch as part of his repertoi. Yeahm the pitch is really arm demanding so it's not longer used.
I love the baseball related content. You seem to like it as well. Make a video on your opinion of the sport so far ? Also try to attend a game ? I think it’ll be great content
Now that Japan has won the World Baseball Classic, expect to see many more splitters and forkballs in the Major League. Japan's pitchers use them much more often and all of the major league players had trouble with them.
A lot of these become much easier to identify the more you watch the game. To someone who never watched baseball like yourself, the cutter seemed hard to identify but to longtime baseball fans, the cutting movement is much more noticeable because we’re our eyes are much more conditioned to noticing every slight bit of movement on a pitch.
If you want more baseball content, you have to react to the highlights of this year's World Baseball Classic. Its the World Cup of the Baseball World, and the passion in the stadiums and the fans are absolutely insane.
The knuckle ball is so interesting. So few pitchers have thrown it, and those that do throw it almost exclusively. The reason it's unpredictable is because the ball doesn't spin and it's at the mercy of the air resistance.
To add to this, you also usually see knuckleballers have a lot more longevity to their careers since the knuckler doesn’t necessarily need to be fast in order to be effective. Tim Wakefield retired at 45. RA Dickey retired at 43. Those are two of the more well-known knuckleballers in recent history.
@Robbie Franks to be honest, neither would have really had a career without the knuckle. If I remember right R.A. actually threw a harder knuckle than other knuckle ballers.
Cutters move the opposite direction of two-seam fastballs/sinkers. Cutters move towards the pitcher's glove side (so if they're right-handed, it moves to the left, if they're left-handed, it moves to the right). Two seam fastballs move towards the pitcher's arm side (so if they're right handed, it moves to the right, if they're left-handed, it moves to the left).
All these have separate grips, spins, and arm angles. For example the fast ball uses the index and middle finger placed along the laces, but when a pitcher throws a change up, he forms a circle with his thumb and forefinger, and the middle finger and ring finger are along the laces. By doing this, he is able to sling his arm the same as he would on a fastball but the friction of more hand area in contact with the ball slows it down. On a curve ball, the index and middle finger are placed together across the laces and there is an outward flick of the wrist. The screwball is the same pitch as a curve but instead of an outward flick of the wrist it's in inward flick. The slider is the hardest to master and once mastered the hardest to hit. It takes years to perfect these pitches.
At first, you may think that a curve ball would be the hardest ball in baseball to hit, but good hitters can read the spin of the ball and break out of the pitchers hand and will sit back. The hardest pitch to hit in baseball is a well thrown change up. Pitchers are taught to throw the change up the exact same (intensity and arm slot) as a fastball, but the grip allows for the change in speed. A wel thrown change up is devistating and almost impossible to hit because it mimics a fastball almost the whole way
Screwball is so rare because it is VERY hard on the arm. Location is what keeps guys with less zip on their fastball in the league. They can reliably place the pitch on the edge of the plate. Conversely, the guys with 100 mph heat may emphasize their shaky control to keep the batter from crowding the plate. If a curve "hangs" and doesn't break before it reaches the plate, it is likely to end up being hit over the fence. "Hanging curve", shows up in pitchers nightmares. Really fast pitches can appear to "explode" as the brain can't process how fast the ball is getting bigger.
A cutter will break toward the glove hand, while a two-seamer will break away from it. It's called a knuckleball because the pitcher holds the ball with his knuckles sticking out. The idea is to throw it with as little spin as possible, so the direction is unstable. A well-thrown knuckleball can change direction more than once on its way to the plate (something no other pitch can do). A knuckleball has to be thrown slowly, so that there's laminar airflow around the ball. If it's thrown too fast, the airflow will be turbulent, and the pitch won't break.
Starting pitchers will have at least 3 pitches, but most have 4. There are a handful that have 5 pitches in their arsenal. Relief pitchers will have 2 or 3 pitches in their arsenal as they are only needed for one or two innings, some long relievers or even closers could have 4 as they use to be starters.
Warming up before a slow pitch softball game, a friend of mine threw me a knuckle ball. As it came at me I couldn't figure out where it was going. Catching it was a totally defensive act. After that, I told him Don't do that again! It just floats and you can't tell where it's going. I honestly think that bigger ball moves a lot more with a knuckler than a baseball!
A very simplistic way you could look at it it is that a cutter is just a faster slider. If the pitch is under 90mph it's most likely a slider, and if it's over 90 or near 90 it's most likely a cutter. As I said that's very simplistic and sliders and cutters aren't thrown the same so that's not really how it works but usually a slider is around 80mph and cutters are high 80's to over 90. The easiest way to know is if a pitcher throws both so you'll know for sure which it is. All in all a cutter has more velocity with less lateral movement and a slider has more lateral movement and less velo (compared to each other).
It's so weird to me that this video is making the rounds, when it's just a poor ripoff of an actual MLB video which does a much better job. Look for the video called "What is the difference between pitches? And why are there so many? | Quick Question (MLB Originals)" by MLB.
In my opinion what makes baseball great are the stats. You can measure just about anything in baseball. It makes for great discussions as well. It's a combination of science and art at the same time. You can be a mechanically sound pitcher but you can also add your own creativity to your pitches to make them unique. Pitchers are like wizards. They can make a batter look very foolish when their stuff is great. But when they make mistake which will eventually happen no matter how great a pitcher you are a batter will make you pay.
Cutter = more velocity, late small break toward glove side of pitcher Slider = less velocity, large horizontal movement toward glove side of pitcher Not 100% of time, but a good starting point for when you are watching. If you really want to get into a game, pull up the Baseball Savant pages of each pitcher to see what pitches they throw and how often (percentage) they throw them. Then you can almost predict based on the count how they would attack certain hitters.
For me the most difficult was against a pitcher who had a good fastball and a good changeup. You can't tell the difference in speed on the changeup until you've swung out of your shoes at air
Great pitchers know how to mix their speeds to get strike 3. On the flip side, great batters know how to continuously foul off would-be strike 3s, or have good enough plate discipline to identify and hold off swinging on pitches out of the zone. If an at-bat goes for 10+ pitches, just know how much of a chess game is being played between the pitcher and batter. You should check out Jomboy Media’s channel for breakdowns of different occurrences in baseball. He’s really great at making the game easy to understand for newer fans, and the videos are usually hilarious because he’s also great at reading lips. I will warn you, though: the breakdowns usually contain a lot of swearing, so be prepared to use your bleep button, or risk demonetization lol.
The one thing this video misses is location and control. Some of the best pitchers don't had impressive arsenals but are able to locate where they throw them at difficult areas of the strike zone aka "painting the corners". Look at late period Tom Glavine or Bartolo Colon at the end. Both mostly threw slower fastballs only but their location and control was so good they were effective anyway
If you want to see a great screw ball, look up Fernando Valenzuela. He was the best. The best split finger fast ball was Bruce Sutter, and the best cutter was Mariano Rivera. For movement and control, check out Greg Maddox. For power fast balls, check out Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemens.
If you follow one team you'll get to know each pitcher and the pitches he throws. You'll even come to know what he's most likely to throw in a given situation. Often the batter knows as well but he still has to hit it!
If you want to see some awesome mind games that go on in pitcher/batter match-ups, you should watch Jomboy Media's "Julio Urias changes arm slots to mess with Soto, a breakdown"
Here’s a RUclips video showing the basic grips of seven different pitches. ruclips.net/video/29ImtJZ6B7o/видео.html Another point I wish to make is that few major league pitchers have mastered more than three of the seven pitches.
The screwball is a real pitch. The mythos around it (at least from my understandings) is that the screwball is so destructive to your arm that basically everyone said "we're not gonna throw that or even try ever again." Thus is the alleged reason why it hasnt been seen in the MLB for years. I'm personally not entirely sure thats real but it either isn't that great of a pitch OR it actually does destroy your arm cuz there has to be some form of legitimate reason why its been basically abandoned.
Now you know why it’s so unusual to have an Ohtani who can pitch and hit. When you spend all your time pitching you have no time for hitting. Ohtani’s split finger fastball in 2021 had a 0.087 hit rate. You read that right. An avg batter hits .250. Ohtani’s splitter held batters to a .087 batting avg.
Cutter is a fastball that breaks downward and toward the pitchers glove hand. Opposite the 2-seam/sinker which runs toward the pitchers throwing arm. Both types of fastballs but provide different movement. I highly recommend looking up a video on “pitch tunneling” to understand why you’d put together an arsenal of pitches that break left, right down and stay straight etc. Basic concept is you make these all look like a straight (4-seam fastball) pitch for as much of the flight as possible until they break sharp down (curveball), glove side (cutter), arm side (2-seam/cutter), sharp flat-ish glove side (slider) m.ruclips.net/video/IuyHjl6XwOA/видео.html
This video always bugs me when I see it because the narrator rarely touches on how the pitch types are executed which to me is the most fascinating part
5:13 whay you said here it is the reason why baseball is so fkn difficult to play, and you are watching the ball travel in tv but in person is another shit. A fastball at 95 mph or even 100 mph like they are throwing nowdays and later the next pitch is a changeup at 88 mph, that shit will destroy your batting mechanic and your swing for good. Destroy your mind too, you are now guessing what is coming now, if speed or offspeed. You have to adjust and react better and thats whats make you a MLB level hitter.
Why people always choose this video to watch about pitches? the original one from MLB channel is the best one, i will put the title below: What is the difference between pitches? And why are there so many? | Quick Question (MLB Originals)
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As a person that pitched from age 9 though college.. it all has to do on where you grip the ball, how you release it, and sometimes what angle you release it. Every pitcher even throwing the same pitch is a bit different
FACTS! Nice accurate description Sir.👍⚾
Yeah it depends on the pitcher just bc you use the same grip and motion doesn’t mean you’ll get the same movement either it also depends on your body type and flexibility as well
Yes... I pitched from age 7 thru high school, and a summer in Cape Cod, and as a "soft tossing crafty left hander" like I was, I experimented with different grips and putting pressure on one of my fingers to give the pitch "extra" movement.. sometimes it worked.. sometimes I'd get lit up like a christmas tree. I had both a "2 seamer" AND a "sinker" and used 3 different grips with my changeups that moved 3 different ways when I threw them.. my problem was, I could touch 90mph.. but had NO control when I threw that hard.
MLB has a video about this that explains a bit more about the physics and the history. It also goes over banned pitches and give more information on the knuckleball
Something not mentioned is that the rotation on a specific pitch can be modified by the arm position that the pitcher releases the ball. It can range from straight over the top of the shoulder, or completely sidearm (with the arm releasing the ball from a horizontal position. Not a lot of pitchers do this, but the ones that can pull it off correctly, can really keep the hitters guessing.
A batter steps to the plate with what's called an "approach." Approach means a strategy. He has studied the pitcher and is trying to get a pitch to his liking. The approach can change from pitch to pitch. Likewise, the pitcher has studied the batter. He knows his strengths and weaknesses. This is the mental game, the battle, that makes baseball a thinker's sport.
Baseball being a "thinker's" sport is a huge misconception. Baseball is the most hostile sport to actual human intelligence; baseball players who openly demonstrate an IQ higher than 80 are usually run out of the sport early. There's a reason that baseball players have the reputation of being dumb even by jock standards.
Joe, the purpose of the raised seams on a baseball is to allow the ball to be controlled. When a thrown ball rotates the seams create an area of high pressure on one side, and low pressure on the other. The ball will move (curve) towards the area of lowest pressure. By making the ball spin with differing rotations allows the pitcher to throw various types of pitches. A knuckleball has almost no rotation at all and moves in an erratic pattern.
Great to see those old black and white clips with Sandy Koufax pitching from a mound that was also referred to as "the hill". Wonderful memories
It is also interesting to see how to grip or prep each pitch. I'm sure a video exists for this, but for example, the difference in how a pitcher will hold a 4 seam fastball vs a sinker vs a cutter. That will also help you understand how and why the pitch moves they way it does.
Also, Love the Show. Preordered and have been playing for a few days already...⚾
Hey! I just came across just channel and I loving the reaction to baseball videos!! Keep up the good work and I hope you fall more and more in love with this beautiful game. Regards from Mexico!!
Btw, It was a little disappointing that video didn't show any examples of the "screwballs", specially since the best mexican baseball player of all time, Fernando Valenzuela, used to throw that pitch as part of his repertoi. Yeahm the pitch is really arm demanding so it's not longer used.
I love the baseball related content. You seem to like it as well. Make a video on your opinion of the sport so far ? Also try to attend a game ? I think it’ll be great content
Now that Japan has won the World Baseball Classic, expect to see many more splitters and forkballs in the Major League. Japan's pitchers use them much more often and all of the major league players had trouble with them.
A lot of these become much easier to identify the more you watch the game. To someone who never watched baseball like yourself, the cutter seemed hard to identify but to longtime baseball fans, the cutting movement is much more noticeable because we’re our eyes are much more conditioned to noticing every slight bit of movement on a pitch.
If you want more baseball content, you have to react to the highlights of this year's World Baseball Classic. Its the World Cup of the Baseball World, and the passion in the stadiums and the fans are absolutely insane.
I SUBSCRIBED ALREADY!!! STOP YELLING AT ME!!! 🤣🤪🤣
The knuckle ball is so interesting. So few pitchers have thrown it, and those that do throw it almost exclusively. The reason it's unpredictable is because the ball doesn't spin and it's at the mercy of the air resistance.
To add to this, you also usually see knuckleballers have a lot more longevity to their careers since the knuckler doesn’t necessarily need to be fast in order to be effective. Tim Wakefield retired at 45. RA Dickey retired at 43. Those are two of the more well-known knuckleballers in recent history.
@Robbie Franks to be honest, neither would have really had a career without the knuckle. If I remember right R.A. actually threw a harder knuckle than other knuckle ballers.
never thought of this before but the term 'breaking balls' is hilarious
Cutters move the opposite direction of two-seam fastballs/sinkers. Cutters move towards the pitcher's glove side (so if they're right-handed, it moves to the left, if they're left-handed, it moves to the right). Two seam fastballs move towards the pitcher's arm side (so if they're right handed, it moves to the right, if they're left-handed, it moves to the left).
All these have separate grips, spins, and arm angles. For example the fast ball uses the index and middle finger placed along the laces, but when a pitcher throws a change up, he forms a circle with his thumb and forefinger, and the middle finger and ring finger are along the laces. By doing this, he is able to sling his arm the same as he would on a fastball but the friction of more hand area in contact with the ball slows it down. On a curve ball, the index and middle finger are placed together across the laces and there is an outward flick of the wrist. The screwball is the same pitch as a curve but instead of an outward flick of the wrist it's in inward flick. The slider is the hardest to master and once mastered the hardest to hit. It takes years to perfect these pitches.
At first, you may think that a curve ball would be the hardest ball in baseball to hit, but good hitters can read the spin of the ball and break out of the pitchers hand and will sit back. The hardest pitch to hit in baseball is a well thrown change up. Pitchers are taught to throw the change up the exact same (intensity and arm slot) as a fastball, but the grip allows for the change in speed. A wel thrown change up is devistating and almost impossible to hit because it mimics a fastball almost the whole way
Screwball is so rare because it is VERY hard on the arm.
Location is what keeps guys with less zip on their fastball in the league. They can reliably place the pitch on the edge of the plate. Conversely, the guys with 100 mph heat may emphasize their shaky control to keep the batter from crowding the plate.
If a curve "hangs" and doesn't break before it reaches the plate, it is likely to end up being hit over the fence. "Hanging curve", shows up in pitchers nightmares.
Really fast pitches can appear to "explode" as the brain can't process how fast the ball is getting bigger.
A cutter will break toward the glove hand, while a two-seamer will break away from it.
It's called a knuckleball because the pitcher holds the ball with his knuckles sticking out. The idea is to throw it with as little spin as possible, so the direction is unstable. A well-thrown knuckleball can change direction more than once on its way to the plate (something no other pitch can do). A knuckleball has to be thrown slowly, so that there's laminar airflow around the ball. If it's thrown too fast, the airflow will be turbulent, and the pitch won't break.
Starting pitchers will have at least 3 pitches, but most have 4. There are a handful that have 5 pitches in their arsenal. Relief pitchers will have 2 or 3 pitches in their arsenal as they are only needed for one or two innings, some long relievers or even closers could have 4 as they use to be starters.
Warming up before a slow pitch softball game, a friend of mine threw me a knuckle ball. As it came at me I couldn't figure out where it was going. Catching it was a totally defensive act. After that, I told him Don't do that again! It just floats and you can't tell where it's going. I honestly think that bigger ball moves a lot more with a knuckler than a baseball!
A very simplistic way you could look at it it is that a cutter is just a faster slider. If the pitch is under 90mph it's most likely a slider, and if it's over 90 or near 90 it's most likely a cutter. As I said that's very simplistic and sliders and cutters aren't thrown the same so that's not really how it works but usually a slider is around 80mph and cutters are high 80's to over 90. The easiest way to know is if a pitcher throws both so you'll know for sure which it is. All in all a cutter has more velocity with less lateral movement and a slider has more lateral movement and less velo (compared to each other).
It's so weird to me that this video is making the rounds, when it's just a poor ripoff of an actual MLB video which does a much better job. Look for the video called "What is the difference between pitches? And why are there so many? | Quick Question (MLB Originals)" by MLB.
All the quick questions from mlb are wonderful. The ballpark dimensions one is my favorite.
EXACTLY my thought. I don't know if it is because it is a woman the one that explain the pitches or something else. It seems weird to me.
this right here ^^^ the "quick question" video is the best one, and explained sooooooooo much better!
Problem with videos by MLB is they get copyright clamed fast.
MLB likes to block their videos. It often is more about what you CAN react to more than what you prefer to.
In my opinion what makes baseball great are the stats. You can measure just about anything in baseball. It makes for great discussions as well. It's a combination of science and art at the same time. You can be a mechanically sound pitcher but you can also add your own creativity to your pitches to make them unique. Pitchers are like wizards. They can make a batter look very foolish when their stuff is great. But when they make mistake which will eventually happen no matter how great a pitcher you are a batter will make you pay.
Cutter = more velocity, late small break toward glove side of pitcher
Slider = less velocity, large horizontal movement toward glove side of pitcher
Not 100% of time, but a good starting point for when you are watching. If you really want to get into a game, pull up the Baseball Savant pages of each pitcher to see what pitches they throw and how often (percentage) they throw them. Then you can almost predict based on the count how they would attack certain hitters.
For me the most difficult was against a pitcher who had a good fastball and a good changeup. You can't tell the difference in speed on the changeup until you've swung out of your shoes at air
Great pitchers know how to mix their speeds to get strike 3. On the flip side, great batters know how to continuously foul off would-be strike 3s, or have good enough plate discipline to identify and hold off swinging on pitches out of the zone. If an at-bat goes for 10+ pitches, just know how much of a chess game is being played between the pitcher and batter. You should check out Jomboy Media’s channel for breakdowns of different occurrences in baseball. He’s really great at making the game easy to understand for newer fans, and the videos are usually hilarious because he’s also great at reading lips. I will warn you, though: the breakdowns usually contain a lot of swearing, so be prepared to use your bleep button, or risk demonetization lol.
The one thing this video misses is location and control. Some of the best pitchers don't had impressive arsenals but are able to locate where they throw them at difficult areas of the strike zone aka "painting the corners". Look at late period Tom Glavine or Bartolo Colon at the end. Both mostly threw slower fastballs only but their location and control was so good they were effective anyway
Bean ball is when the pitcher throws one at your head to instill fear in the hitter.
a little chin music
Roki Sasaki's offspeed pitch is 92mph because he sets them up with 102mph fastballs lol. Source: WBC
You should check out the science behind hitting a baseball. Amazing anyone ever hits anything!
If you want to see a great screw ball, look up Fernando Valenzuela. He was the best. The best split finger fast ball was Bruce Sutter, and the best cutter was Mariano Rivera. For movement and control, check out Greg Maddox. For power fast balls, check out Nolan Ryan, Randy Johnson, and Roger Clemens.
If you follow one team you'll get to know each pitcher and the pitches he throws. You'll even come to know what he's most likely to throw in a given situation. Often the batter knows as well but he still has to hit it!
If you want to see some awesome mind games that go on in pitcher/batter match-ups, you should watch Jomboy Media's "Julio Urias changes arm slots to mess with Soto, a breakdown"
This video is good overall but it doesn't do justice to the knuckleball, which is one of the most interesting type of pitch there is
Here’s a RUclips video showing the basic grips of seven different pitches.
ruclips.net/video/29ImtJZ6B7o/видео.html
Another point I wish to make is that few major league pitchers have mastered more than three of the seven pitches.
The screwball is a real pitch. The mythos around it (at least from my understandings) is that the screwball is so destructive to your arm that basically everyone said "we're not gonna throw that or even try ever again." Thus is the alleged reason why it hasnt been seen in the MLB for years. I'm personally not entirely sure thats real but it either isn't that great of a pitch OR it actually does destroy your arm cuz there has to be some form of legitimate reason why its been basically abandoned.
Now you know why it’s so unusual to have an Ohtani who can pitch and hit. When you spend all your time pitching you have no time for hitting. Ohtani’s split finger fastball in 2021 had a 0.087 hit rate. You read that right. An avg batter hits .250. Ohtani’s splitter held batters to a .087 batting avg.
Cutter is a fastball that breaks downward and toward the pitchers glove hand. Opposite the 2-seam/sinker which runs toward the pitchers throwing arm. Both types of fastballs but provide different movement. I highly recommend looking up a video on “pitch tunneling” to understand why you’d put together an arsenal of pitches that break left, right down and stay straight etc. Basic concept is you make these all look like a straight (4-seam fastball) pitch for as much of the flight as possible until they break sharp down (curveball), glove side (cutter), arm side (2-seam/cutter), sharp flat-ish glove side (slider)
m.ruclips.net/video/IuyHjl6XwOA/видео.html
A change up is pretty much a slow ball.
It is a shame they didn’t show any more close ups of knuckle balls.
If you want to see the nastiest knuckleball pitcher. Look up R.A. Dickey
"Its goid to know a pitchers arsenal of pitches, to identify what pich he is throwing".. unless you are Yu Darvish, who throws everytthing...
I've watched baseball for like 8 years now and i still can't identify pitches.
white sox pitcher cicotte invented the knuckleball back in 1908
React to Eephus pitch compilation.
It's called a Knuckleball because of the way the pitcher grips the pitch. Soccer stole the name
And the batter has approximately 125 milliseconds....
This video always bugs me when I see it because the narrator rarely touches on how the pitch types are executed which to me is the most fascinating part
Hitting a Baseball is the Hardest Thing to Do in Sports!!
5:13 whay you said here it is the reason why baseball is so fkn difficult to play, and you are watching the ball travel in tv but in person is another shit. A fastball at 95 mph or even 100 mph like they are throwing nowdays and later the next pitch is a changeup at 88 mph, that shit will destroy your batting mechanic and your swing for good. Destroy your mind too, you are now guessing what is coming now, if speed or offspeed. You have to adjust and react better and thats whats make you a MLB level hitter.
He didn’t really explain these in good detail at all
Why people always choose this video to watch about pitches? the original one from MLB channel is the best one, i will put the title below:
What is the difference between pitches? And why are there so many? | Quick Question (MLB Originals)
Mlb don't like us reacting to their content 😭
This video is better than that one anyway.
@@BritishGuy22 Well there's a lot of reactors out there that already reacted to this after years and their video isn't down 🤷🏻
@@FuckRUclipsAndGoogle You are on your own pal, everyone loves the original one